As we continue down the path to connecting with our passions and preferences and making them tangible, we will at some point lose steam, lose faith, and lose track. We might even question all of it, thinking we have ourselves totally wrong. It turns out passion is a hard thing to make sustainable.
What we learn is that sustainability in passion requires balancing a handful of principles–practicality and fantasy, self focus and impact focus–while making sure our basic needs are met and not letting preference issues derail us entirely.
Here we really understand the full map of living a meaningful life and where we might get lost along the way so we can be proactive and also pull ourselves back when we get lost.